Subscribed resources

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Jurisprudence Collection
The Online Jurisprudence Collection contains all the judgments and opinions of the Supreme Court of Justice, the European Court of Appeal and the Courts of the European Union, published in the Journal since 1993. All contents are carefully selected and analyzed by Judges, and Counselors of the Editorial Board of the Jurisprudence Collection.
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B-on
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) makes unlimited and permanent access available to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis with these publishers.
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EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content—including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection—all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience.

Full Text Finder
Full Text Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing.

OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

OpenDissertations
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Provide a span of time from the early 20th century to the present.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publisher. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters.
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Scopus
Scopus is a metadata and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors.

Web of Science
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections.
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HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a premier online database of historical and government documents. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.

Kluwer Law Online
Kluwer Law Online is a database of scientific Law journals.

Legix (Only available at Porto Regional Centre)
Legix is the market leader of juridical databases and used by the largest law firms in Portugal. With the same search engine is possible to find Diário da República, JORAA, JORAM, IGFEJ, European Comission document database, among others.

Notice: Under a protocol signed between Priberam and the Catholic University of Portugal, all its users have access to LegiX - http://legix.pt - to search and consult legal information, on the various campuses and abroad through remote accesses, Proxy or VPN.

As a result of the new confinement, Priberam decided to make this access more flexible by allowing it to be done, anywhere, using the user's institutional email (xxx@ucp.pt, xxx@porto.ucp.pt), while maintaining the others access conditions mentioned above.

To do so, just register with the institutional email on the page https://www.legix.pt/pedido-de-acesso-gratuito-ao-legix-para-estudantes-universitarios/.

Once registered, you can access LegiX (https://app.legix.pt/home) on your PC, tablet or mobile phone, regardless of where you are. In LegiX you will find all the information you need to continue your studies, such as, for example, the more than 1500 fundamental codes and diplomas in PDF in dozens of areas of Law.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. The outstanding news coverage includes deep archives and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
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Westlaw International
Westlaw é um serviço on-line de pesquisa jurídica para advogados e profissionais jurídicos dos Estados Unidos e do Reino Unido. Os recursos de informação incluem bases de dados de jurisprudência, estatutos estaduais e federais, códigos administrativos, artigos de jornais e revistas, registos públicos, revistas de direito, revisões legais, tratados, formulários legais, entre outros.
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Westlaw UK (Only available at Porto Regional Centre)
Westlaw UK is a source for jurisprudence, legislation, news, legal magazines, commentary, current awareness alerts and ever-growing, dynamic, easily searchable EU legal materials.

 

Open Access resources

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Legal-Documentary Basis of the Ministry of Justice (Jurisprudence)
Legal and Documentary Basis, managed by the Institute of Financial Management and Justice Equipment (IGFEJ), where can be found, among others, the decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice, and other documents from several entities. You can also consult documents available in the various libraries of the Ministry of Justice.

Dialnet
Dialnet is a database of Hispanic scientific journals.

Diário da República Eletrónico
Find Electronic Journal of the Republic – I e II Series daily updated.

DigiZeitschriften
DigiZeitschriften is a digitized collection of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences areas. The subject areas including search for law, arts, history, philosophy and religion.

Direito das Sucessões nos 22 países da UE
Portal that gathers information on Succession Law from 22 countries of the European Union.

Direito em Dia
This platform is a content aggregator that allows the search of organized jurisprudence simultaneous in all public databases.

Eur-lex: Direito da União Europeia
EUR-Lex provides free access to the authentic Official Journal of the European Union, EU law, EU case-law, international agreements, EFTA documents, other public documents.

European Case Law Identifier
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) is a recognizable, readable and understandable standard by both, humans and computers, which can be assign to all court decisions of all national or European courts. It aims to facilitate the unambiguous citation of judgments and to improve the cross-border accessibility of case law by creating a common system of identification, citation and metadata of the jurisprudence generated within the EU.

IZA Discussion Paper
IZA is a private entity that conducts national and international market research in the area of ​​Labor Law, operating as a non-profit company that has financial support from research activities.

Statewatch: monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union
Statewatch is a non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991 to monitor the development of the EU State and civil liberties. It is formed by lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists. Its European network of contributors is embraces 18 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe in fields like the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.

Council of Europe (Treaty Office)
Complete list of treaties of Europe Council.

HUDOC
Managed by the European Court of Human Rights, this platform allows you to consult judicial decisions related to compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

"Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa"
Legislative databases.

Royal Legislation
Digitization of the collection of Portuguese legislation from 1603 to 1910 and the 5 volumes of Ordenações Manuelinas that D. Manuel I promulgated in 1521.

Legislationline.org: Criminal codes by country
This webpage provides access to criminal codes of OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) participating States.

Legislationline.org: Constitutions by country
This webpage provides access to constitutions of OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) participating States.

European Justice Portal
Published in 23 languages, it aims to provide easy access to information on different justice systems and justice in general in the EU.

PQDT (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open)
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge from several scientific areas.

RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal)
RCAAP portal collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories.

SciELO
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published in Open Access.

 

Portuguese journals in Open Access

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Católica Law Review

Cyber Law

Lisbon Law Review

Market and Competition Law Review

Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto

Revista da Ordem dos Advogados

Revista de Concorrência e Regulação

Revista de Direito Comercial

Revista de Direito da Responsabilidade

Revista de Direito das Sociedades

Revista de Direito e Tecnologia

Revista Eletrónica de Direito Público

 

Statistical information

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Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe. Eurostat offers a whole range of important and interesting data that governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use for their work and daily life.

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
INE produces, in an independent manner, high-quality official statistical information, relevant for the society, while promoting the coordination, the analysis, the innovation and the dissemination of the national statistical activity and ensuring integrated data storage.

PORDATA
PORDATA collects, organizes, systematizes and disseminates data on multiple areas of society, for Portugal and its municipalities, and for the European countries. The reported statistics derive from official and certified sources, with data production skills in the respective areas.

User Training

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The UCP Libraries provide regular training plans for their users, which aim to enable them to efficiently use all kind of resources as well as to acquire other information and digital literacy skills. Registrations can be made from each user's personal area or through their Library's general contacts.

Teachers may also request specific training initiatives for their students about any information resource. These requests should be sent to the responsible for each Library for deliberation and scheduling.

 

Reference and Research

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The reference and research service is a personalized support offered to users, aiming to guide and empower them in the processes of research, manage and use of information resources, both physical and electronic.

This service can be provided in several ways: in person (even by appointment), by e-mail, by telephone, or through the Bibliographic Catalog which offers features specifically designed for this purpose.

 

Research Support

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The UCP Libraries provide support to researchers at various stages of the scientific research process, including clarification of national and European Open Access and Research Data policies; recommendation for publication and use of information; monitoring of the deposit of publications and research data; impact assessment and scope of scientific production.

This service also provides training by request or invitation to researchers and science managers in the following areas: researcher profiles, indexed journals and their metrics, publishing in Open Access, use and reuse of information, predatory publishers, among others.

 

Home loan service

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The UCP Libraries provide the home loan service, but only for items available for this purpose. This service also contemplates the possibility of requesting items that are in any UCP Library, nevertheless, the request must be analyzed by the Library to which it belongs, and may contemplate transportation costs for the user in cases of urgency.

All conditions for using the home loan service are explained in the UCP Libraries Regulations, namely, loan terms and limits, renewals, bookings, penalties for late returns, and compensation for loss or damage.

 

Interlibrary loan

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Through the interlibrary loan service, users can get access to items from other libraries, both domestic and foreign. These requests can be made through the personal area of each user or, exceptionally, by email or in person at the service desk of each Library.

The costs inherent to this service are advertised in each Library at the reception desk and in the personal area of ​​each user in the Bibliographic Catalog, in the section for the interlibrary loan service.

 

Cultural extension

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UCP Libraries regularly organize cultural and scientific initiatives, such as bibliographic exhibitions, art shows, debates and workshops, among others, individually or in cooperation with internal and external entities.

Usually, the participation in these initiatives is open to all persons regardless of whether they are members of the UCP academic community or not.

 

Group Work Offices

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UCP Libraries provide their students, teachers, and researchers access to the group offices, when available, ensuring respect for their maximum capacity. You can ask for one of these offices at the reception desk of each Library, bringing your UCP identification card.

The user who requests the office is responsible for the conservation of the space, equipment, supervision of the key/access card and existing furniture, and in the event of damage or misuse, will be responsible for the cost of repairing the damage.

Users are also responsible for their personal belongings, and the Library cannot be held responsible for any damage or theft.

 

Acquisition

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UCP Libraries ensure the acquisition, technical treatment, and availability of new information resources, like books or journals, suggested by internal users, once they have academic relevance. These requests must be made from the personal area of each user in the Bibliographic Catalog.

It should be noted that the suggestions will be submitted to the appreciation of a teacher identified by the respective Academic Unit and, if the evaluation is positive, the item will be acquired and made available in the corresponding Library collection.

 

Photocopy and scan

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Users may copy and digitize (if the Library makes this kind of equipment available) physical resources available in direct access, in strict compliance with the Copyright and Related Rights.

In some Libraries, the reproduction, copy or digitization, of part of any reserved item may only be performed by their collaborators, constituting a service available to the entire community, upon payment of the associated costs.